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“A must for anyone wanting to learn how to help themselves and those around them,
for anyone seeking personal empowerment in their own health” --JED SCHWARTZ

Learn what the healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu is and how it will
empower you in attaining and maintaining health and harmony
in body, mind and spirit by simply placing your hands on your body

with bestselling author and Jin Shin Jyutsu instructor

WALTRAUD RIEGGER-KRAUSE
author of
HEALTH IS IN YOUR HANDS: JIN SHIN JYUTSU – Practicing the
Art of Self-Healing (with 51 Flash Cards for the Hands-on
Practice of Jin Shin Jyutsu)

Publication Date: March 2014

ISBN: 978-1-935830-23-8 (trade paper; 96pp + 51 cards) / 978-1-935830-24-5 (ebook); $25.95

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The physio-philosophy of Jin Shin Jyutsu is a traditional Japanese healing art for
harmonizing life energy. Placing our hands on specific points on the body – the so-called
Safety Energy Locks – sets the healing flow of energy in motion. This creates harmony and
supports inner balance. Jin Shin Jyutsu is a self-help method that can easily be applied in
daily life, wherever you are.
With her revolutionary book and card set, Waltraud Riegger-Krause makes the healing art
of Jin Shin Jyutsu conveniently accessible as a hands-on practice to anyone interested in
sharing and benefiting from its therapeutic and salutary powers. Besides offering an astute,
yet simply and clearly written introduction to the foundations of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Health Is in
Your Hands lays out a wide variety of treatments for a broad range of symptoms and
conditions, and helps you to quickly find the proper card for the appropriate self-treatment.
Health Is in Your Hands is nothing less than a veritable Jin Shin Jyutsu First Aid Kit
together with a thorough presentation of this healing art all in one.

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“A fun and easy way to learn about Jin Shin Jyutsu, Physio-Philosophy! This book details
the basic foundation of Jin Shin Jyutsu, while the card set engages the reader in self-
application. A tribute to the work of Mary Burmeister and a valuable publication for the
novice and the seasoned Jin Shin Jyutsu student alike.”
-- DAVID BURMEISTER, Director, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona

“Waltraud Riegger-Krause captures the beautiful Art of JSJ with insightful clarity, bringing
the invisible concepts into visible practical applications. A must for anyone wanting to learn
how to help themselves and those around them, for anyone seeking personal
empowerment in their own health.” --JED SCHWARTZ, Jin Shin Jyutsu Instructor and
Practitioner

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Unlike the majority of health and self-help books, Health Is in Your Hands
• allows you to quickly and effectively help both yourself and others by simply placing your
hands on the body: never again will you stand by helplessly when your children or
loved ones suffer – from growing pains to nausea, from the common cold to post-op
recovery, from headache to depression, from menstrual cramping to menopause.
• contains a beautifully designed and illustrated card set together with a symptoms index
that will allow you to quickly find and apply the appropriate treatment for yourself and
others in any given situation.
• effectively harmonizes body, mind and spirit through touch

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“The teachings of Jin Shin Jyutsu, which were rediscovered by Jiro Murai in Japan at the
beginning of the last century, consist of a philosophical and a practical level. On the one
hand, they delineate an art of living that helps us to ‘know ourselves’ and to bring our
lifestyles into harmony with the laws of the universe; on the other hand, they present a
system of Energy Flow patterns and Energy Points for practical use on ourselves and
others to alleviate discomfort and pain.”

“Jiro Murai taught an art of living that he called Jin Shin Jyutsu. The name Jin Shin Jyutsu
(pronounced: jin shin jitsu) comes from the Japanese.
• ‘Jin’ means ‘(compassionate, knowing) man’.
• ‘Shin’ means ‘creator’, or ‘spirit of God’.
• ‘Jyutsu’ means ‘art’.
Mary Burmeister, Jiro Murai’s devoted student, would subsequently also refer to the art of
Jin Shin Jyutsu as ‘Now Know Myself’ and ‘Physio Philosophy’ (‘philosophy of nature’).”

“Practicing Jin Shin Jyutsu means working with our hands, using them to touch and hold our
fingers as well as specific places on the body – so-called Safety Energy Locks (SEL) – in
order to dissolve energy blockages and balance the flow of life energy within us ... Touching
and holding Safety Energy Locks is also called ‘jumper-cabling’.”

—Excerpts, Health Is in Your Hands

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Jumper-cabling promotes physical health

• it provides for the better care of cells and tissue
layers by allowing life energy to flow unobstructedly through the body
• it more effectively detoxifies the body
• it stimulates our metabolism
• it puts the body in a state of deep relaxation, thereby balancing vegetative and functional
disturbances
• it harmonizes circulation and digestion
• it strengthens the immune system

Jumper-cabling promotes mental/emotional health

• it brightens one’s mood
• it strengthens self-confidence
• it dissolves old behavioral patterns
• it harmonizes attitudes – worry, fear, anger, sadness, and pretense/trying-to
• it dissolves depressive moods
• it improves our charisma

Jumper-cabling promotes spiritual and mental harmony

• it dissolves negative thought patterns
• it fosters serenity and cheerfulness
• it brings about eye-opening experiences
• it facilitates mental-spiritual clarity
• it increases spiritual insight
• it expands consciousness

—Excerpts, Health Is in Your Hands

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About the Author

One of the few authorized Jin Shin Jyutsu instructors in the world, naturopath and Jin Shin
Jyutsu expert Waltraud Riegger-Krause has practiced and taught Jin Shin Jyutsu across the
globe for over twenty years, after studying with Mary Burmeister, the founder of Jin Shin
Jyutsu in the U.S., from 1985-1989. She is the author of several acclaimed works on Jin
Shin Jyutsu in German, including the revolutionary book-and-card set Health Is in Your
Hands. Jin Shin Jyutsu – Practicing the Art of Self-Healing (with 51 Flash Cards for the
Hand-on Practice of Jin shin Jyutsu), which is made available in English for the first time.
She lives in Isny, Germany, where she also practices Jin Shin Jyutsu. Waltraud Riegger-
Krause's Jin Shin Jyutsu books and recordings have sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.

Waltraud Riegger-Krause
Q&A
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Healing

1. What is Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ)? Is JSJ a technique?

JSJ is an ancient Eastern healing art that was rediscovered by Jiro Murai in Japan at the
beginning of the 20th century, and subsequently brought to the West by his student Mary
Burmeister. JSJ is an art of living that combines the understanding of our spiritual
inheritance with the understanding of how we can work on our energy fields to harmonize
our existence on all levels: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Today, JSJ is taught
and practiced all over the world.

2. Could you give an example of how we sometimes practice or apply JSJ without
knowing it? Are we all JSJ-naturals?

To me JSJ is a built-in form of wisdom that we possess, which means that we automatically
touch areas on our body to help ourselves. For example, we touch our forehead when we
want to remember a name, children suck their thumb to harmonize their worries and calm
themselves, while at the same time helping their digestion.

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3. Could you briefly explain what ‘Safety Energy Locks’ are, and why touching them
with our hands is called ‘jumper cabling’ or giving yourself or another a ‘flow’?

There is an energy field that permeates or engulfs our spirit, mind and body. SELs are
places or openings in this energy field through which we can access the energy and
harmonize it. This energy field is connected to the ever-present universal energy. By
touching the SELs we train our awareness on them, thus allowing them to ‘awaken’ and
start recharging with universal energy – like a battery. Giving a ‘flow’ means touching a
sequence of SELs, thereby recharging and harmonizing body, mind and spirit.

4. How does JSJ address body, mind and spirit?

Since there is a vital life energy field that permeates all dimensions of our being, in touching
the body we touch spirit and mind as well.

5. As a naturopath you are familiar with many different forms of therapy. What – in your
experience – makes JSJ stand out in comparison to other healing arts?

To me JSJ goes very deep because it touches on all dimensions of our being. Someone
comes to me with a backache, for instance, and after a few sessions they tell me that they
feel less angry or that their sleep-related problems are gone. JSJ brings about subtle
changes on all levels of our being. It is holistic. What makes JSJ stand out is that it offers a
system of self-help sequences that anybody anywhere can apply to help themselves.

6. How did you get involved in JSJ? Could you talk a little bit about your personal
journey?

Like so many others, my path to JSJ was not a direct one. It was on a trip to the US in 1985,
during a workshop at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, that my teacher, Janet Oliver,
talked to me about JSJ. I immediately knew that I wanted to meet Mary Burmeister, who
had brought JSJ to the US from Japan. Being in Mary’s class was overwhelming for me. I
didn’t understand much at first because my English wasn’t good at the time, but my heart
understood that this was to be my path. I knew I had to come back and study this art. And I
did. Together with my spiritual practice, which I started the same year, JSJ changed my life.

7. What, in your opinion, are the greatest benefits of practicing or applying JSJ?

My hands are always with me, and I can help myself and others whenever needed.

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8. Could you tell us about one or two extraordinary experiences with JSJ that amazed
even as experienced a practitioner as yourself?

Of course there are many stories I could relate. Here is one that happened to me last
summer: I was on the road, teaching a class. Somehow I got a splinter in my right middle
finger. I started holding it with my left hand. But because I was teaching, I didn’t have or
didn’t take sufficient time to hold it frequently and long enough. So, every day it was hurting
more and more, and it started to get red and inflamed. The night after the last day of class, I
woke up because my finger was hurting badly and was swollen, pounding and red. It felt
and looked like blood poisoning. I began holding it until I fell asleep again. The next morning
it was already better. Then the class organizer and his wife also put their hands on my
finger. The left hand first, then the right hand on top of it, as if to create a force field for
pulling something out. The swelling went down. During the entire journey home, I was
holding my finger whenever I thought of it. The next morning pus had accumulated around
the splinter, and it opened up and came out. I have also witnessed many instances in which
JSJ helped people suffering emotional pain and trauma.

9. Why did you decide to write Health Is In Your Hands: Jin Shin Jyutsu – Practicing the
Art of Self-Healing. What can this book and card set do for us?

I wanted to share this wonderful art and present it in an easy-to-understand, yet profound
fashion, thus helping to spread Mary Burmeister’s message to the world at large.

10. If someone could only learn one flow for daily use, which one would you
recommend?

I would recommend the Main Central Vertical Harmonizing Energy Flow because it is our
main connection to the universal battery. It gives us vitality and harmonizes our mind and
emotions as well as the entire endocrine system.

11. JSJ uses touch, and yet it is very different from Reiki. JSJ works with energy
pathways, and yet they don’t always align with acupuncture meridians, nor do the
Safety Energy Locks necessarily correspond to acupuncture points. Could you speak
to the ways in which JSJ is different from Reiki and acupuncture?

Unfortunately, I cannot speak to JSJ’s the difference from Reiki as I’ve never studied the
latter. But I can speak to its difference from acupuncture. JSJ works mainly with the energy
that Mary Burmeister called ‘Trinity Energy’. And while it also works with the energy that
acupuncture calls ‘meridians’, it does so through the prism of the much more subtle so-
called ‘Trinity Flows’. Acupuncture stimulates and sedates, whereas JSJ harmonizes our
entire being. Also, self-help is an important part of JSJ, whereas it is not really part of
acupuncture.

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12. For some time now, JSJ has been recognized among traditional Western medical
practitioners for its effectiveness and easy applicability, and it is now used
effectively in hospitals. There are also many nurses who integrate JSJ into their daily
routine. Could you speak to this development and to JSJ’s benefits in a hospital
setting?

In harmonizing the energy field through JSJ, the body is able to recover much more quickly.
JSJ helps to restore life energy and stimulates our self-healing abilities. Thus, after surgery
it can support physical healing and help to center the patient emotionally, which makes for
fewer medical complications. More and more doctors and nurses have begun seeing and
appreciating this.

13. What is your experience using JSJ with children, and would you recommend
it as a skill that parents and children in particular would greatly benefit from?

JSJ works very well with children. Because they tend to be much more in synch and in
touch with their bodies than adults, they are very open to harmonizing life energy.

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